2. A Russian Dialogue With the West: Alexander Pushkins’s “The Queen of Spades” “The Queen of Spades means secret hostility.” A New Book on Fortunetelling

3. Alexander Pushkin and His Times (1799—1837)

4. Pushkin’s Family Pushkin’s MotherPushkin’s Father

5. Imperial Lyceum (Tsarskoe Selo)Pushkin’s dacha, where he wrote “The Queen of Spades” Pushkin’s study Natalia Goncharova, Pushkin’s Wife The Duel Spot

6. Alexander I (1777--1825) * ruled 1801--1825 Nicholas I (1796—1855) *ruled 1825--1855 The Making of a Nation: Westerners and Slavophiles The Golden Age of Russian Culture

8. “The Queen of Spades”: East Meets West, or Strange Encounters of the Third Kind Russians at home and abroad The foreign presence in the story

9. Duke de Richelieu (1696—1788) St.Germain (1710—1784) Giacomo Casanova (1725—1798) Dante Alighieri (1265—1321) Napoleon Bonaparte (1769—1821) Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) Franz Mesmer (1734—1815) Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740—1810) Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (1745—1799) Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688—1772) The West-Europeans in Pushkin’s Tale (in order of appearance in the text)

10. “Two fixed ideas can no more exist in one mind than, in the physical sense, two bodies can occupy one and the same place.” (Ch. 6, p. 880) ~ Genre questions ~ “Romantic” and “Realistic” interpretations of “The Queen of Spades” Tchaikovskii’s opera Iakov Protazanov’s 1916 silent film version (script by Fiodor Otsep)

11. Hermann’s madness A Russian Faust? Numbers and cards Dream imagery the “poor” Lisa